Last night was the Roses Design Awards. We did pretty well last year and although we had a few pieces nominated we genuinely didn’t feel we would beat our tally. So it was nice to be wrong.

Emma and Gre were both nominated for Emerging Designer of the Year, and, to our amazement, they both won it. Not that we had a favourite. Mr Rix’s sizeable ego was swelled even further by picking up Designer of the Year, and our digital department proved they’re a force to be reckoned with by picking up a Gold for The Neighbourhood’s website and a Bronze for Warburtons. Silver Cross won Silver for Packaging and Gold for The Little Book of Silver Cross in Promotional Literature, as did The University of the Arts Prospectuses for Corporate Literature. All good so far.

But then a funny thing happened: after seven years of waiting, we finally picked up the Grand Prix, for the Silver Cross Book. Gobsmacked. So all in all, seven Golds, a Silver and a Bronze – needless to say everyone’s feeling pretty chuffed with themselves. Or at least we did last night. Today we just feel like crap.

Well done to everyone who worked on the projects, thanks to the Drum and all the judges – Malcolm Garrett, Jane Pluer, Mark Hurst, Ben Stott and Ian McFarlane, and congrats to Music and The Neighbourhood, who also picked up awards. Finally a massive thank you to all our clients for trusting us to do the work that we love doing. All we need to work out now is how we better this next year.